Cowgirls in the Sand

The idea of cowgirls in the sand was once just a fever dream Neil Young had about beaches in Spain—that was his explanation for the creation of one of his best known songs from his 1969 sophomore solo album, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. At that time, a cowgirl wearing Western clothing at the beach was unimaginable. Cowgirls in the sand were put there by a bucking horse or an ornery calf. Until the 1980s, most cowgirls outside of rodeo arenas and Country music halls wore smaller ver